Appendix 4. Character list.
Those characters for which states are listed are qualitative, the others are quantitative. The raw data are presented in Appendix 3. Assignment of states to numbers is arbitrary and does not necessarily indicate polarity.
Squamation.
1. Subnasal-postrostral contact: (0) absent, (1) present (Wiens and Reeder, 1997).
2. Postrostral number (Smith, 1939).
3. Posterior postrostral number (Wiens and Reeder, 1997).
4. Number of anterior frontonasals (Wiens and Reeder, 1997).
5. Contact between lateral and median frontonasals: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
6. Frontals saggital division: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
7. Frontal-interparietal contact: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
8. Frontal-median frontonasal contact: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
9. Median prefrontal: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
10. Median parietal: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
11. Frontoparietal number (Smith, 1939).
12. Posterior division of the interparietal: (0) absent, (1) present (Wiens and Reeder, 1997).
13. Supraocular-frontoparietal contact: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
14. Number of supraocular scales (all scales between the circumorbitals and superciliaries were counted).
15. Canthal-lorilabial contact: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
16. Preocular division: (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
17. Loreal number (Smith, 1939).
18. Number of gular scales (from the level of the mitepockets up to and including the mental scale)
19. Number of dorsals (Smith, 1939).
20. Number of femoral pores per side (Smith, 1939).
21. Number of scales between femoral pore rows (Smith, 1939).
22. Number of interpostanals (males only; Wiens and Reeder, 1997).
23. Scales around forelimb (measured at midlength of forearm).
24. Number of subdigital lamellae on fourth toe of hindlimb (Smith, 1939).
Coloration
25. Head and nuchal and region (in males): (0) not black, (1) black.
26. Width of black nuchal collar (number of scales; modified from Smith, 1939).
27. White posterior border of dark nuchal collar (in males): (0) incomplete mid-dorsally, (1) complete mid-dorsally (Smith, 1939).
28. Lateral blue spot in nuchal collar (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939)
29. White nuchal spots (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
30. White nuchal stripe (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
31. White postocular stripe (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
32. Black axillary spot (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Wiens and Reeder, 1997).
33. Black on anterior portion of some or all flank scales (in males): (0) absent, (1) present.
34. Black transverse stripes on flanks (in males): (0) absent, (1) present.
35. Blue gular blotch (in males): (0) extends over entire gular region, (1) on posterior portion of gular region only (Smith, 1939).
36. Black ventral collar (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
37. Contact between belly patches and gular patch (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
38. Median contact of belly patches (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939).
39. Belly patches (in males): (0) not extending onto hindlimbs, (1) extending onto hindlimbs (Smith, 1939).
40. Black medial border of belly patches (in males): (0) absent, (1) present (Smith, 1939)
41. Dorsal coloration (in males): (0) brown-gray, (1) green, (2) blue (with red blotches), (3) red to yellow, generally with blue to green head, limbs and tail, (4) black, (5) yellow, (6) black and red to yellow morph (polymorphic), (7) brown to gray plus green (polymorphic), (8) brown to gray plus blue (polymorphic), (9) blue, green, and brown to gray (polymorphic).
Morphometric
42. Maximum male SVL from the OTU.
43. Residual from regression of hindlimb vs. SVL (males only).
44. Residual from regression of head length vs. SVL (males only).